[ENG] I celebrated my April 25, as is often the case, by writing about Pier Paolo Pasolini, an author who is strongly politically connected to the themes of resistance because of personal reasons in the first place, having been his brother Guido killed during the civil war that broke out in Italy as the last…

The transnational circulation of contemporary Italian literature is one of the main topics of my project TransIT, and interestingly enough, the two most important events devoted to support this circulation will happen shortly in the next few days, making the next last days of April very relevant for Italian literature worldwide. FILL, Festival of Italian…

[ENG] I have enrolled in a Mandarin class. Partly, I made this decision by following the evolution of my research project, partly because the presence of the Chinese community has been a strong element of continuity in my transit between Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States in the past eleven years, since I…

[ENG] A georgeous spring welcomed TransIT to Ireland, during the events featuring writer Claudia Durastanti at the Institute of Italian Culture in Dublin, on March 22nd, and at the University of Galway, on March 23rd, the latter co-organized by me representing Cardiff University. Exactly one year later, we crossed paths again with this sensational writer…

[ENG] March has started in a new house for the author of this blog, about one year after the first post published on this digital space. When I started this blog, one year ago, I was getting acquainted with a new house as well, which would have rapidly become a new home, in Long Beach.…

[ENG] In the early days of March, I decided to collect a few interesting things happened in February, which I was unable to report here previously. Speaking of diasporas and migrations between Italy and the United Kingdom, for example, a few weeks ago a book was out for NNE, Ragazze perbene (2023), written by Olga…

[ENG] 2023 has begun with a foot in the UK and the other in the US for TransIT, as I believe it is appropriate for this project, which is built across the Ocean separating those two countries and their history of immigration. In my personal case, the year has started with a transnational medical emergency…

[ENG] I write this post, the last one in 2022, in the library of the University of Bristol, where I wrote a large part of my doctoral dissertation, which was started right here about eleven years ago. As usual in this library, a magic, small miracle happens: I come across a collection edited by Igiaba…

[ENG] In the last few weeks, while waiting for my visa to access the UK to be issued and continue my project in the location where it has officially been hosted since its starting date, Cardiff University, I have travelled through an increasing number of Italian cities. I visited centers and archives hosting creative texts…

[ENG] Transit is in transit! As a demonstration that mobility is in the nature, and not only in the name, of a project investigating mobility, I am currently spending a few more weeks than I planned in Italy. The transition between the United States and the United Kingdom, where I will develop the second part…